{"id":137903,"date":"2022-04-09T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/hubble-space-telescope-spots-extreme-weather-on-strange-alien-worlds"},"modified":"2022-04-09T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:03:08","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-spots-extreme-weather-on-strange-alien-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/hubble-space-telescope-spots-extreme-weather-on-strange-alien-worlds","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope spots extreme weather on strange alien worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-space-telescope-spots-extreme-weather-on-strange-alien-worlds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you like to visit a world where it rains rock?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since astronomers began finding exoplanets in the 1990s, they\u2019ve uncovered a lot of hot Jupiters, and now NASA\u2019s most venerable telescope is playing meteorologist.<\/p>\n<p>These colossal worlds are gas giants like our own Jupiter but orbit much closer to their parent stars \u2014 close enough that their surfaces might boil at stomach-churning temperatures above 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,600 degrees Celsius). Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has pierced the veils of two different hot Jupiters, finding some rather bizarre weather, at least by the mundane standards of our solar system. These worlds are more than curiosities; they\u2019re evidence of how a star can influence an orbiting planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to visit a world where it rains rock? Since astronomers began finding exoplanets in the 1990s, they\u2019ve uncovered a lot of hot Jupiters, and now NASA\u2019s most venerable telescope is playing meteorologist. These colossal worlds are gas giants like our own Jupiter but orbit much closer to their parent stars \u2014 close [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}